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Plan. he keeps all of the costs control, so he keeps the $700 billion in medicare cuts he ran against, and i think what a lot of people dont recognize is he also keeps the new taxes in the presidents health care plan. the part he gets rid of is the care in obama care. he gets rid of the spending in it. if he didnt do those two things, get rid of the spending but keep the cost controls, he couldnt get anywhere near balancing the budget and he also couldnt pass those two policies. new taxes and me...

Reversed himself so many times on that issue, there are reasons to be a bit cynical. back in 2010, for example, ryan blasted obamas new health care law, said, "what the bill essentially does, it treats medicare like a piggy bank." by the following year ryan was including the same medicare cuts in his own budget, not too worried about consistency there. ryan changed course again last year while running with mitt romney, the attack on the president, "here comes raid on medicare" became a major cam...

Understands the scope of our challenges and hell do the very, very, very difficult things that need to be done now. on the other hand, he wont actually admit any of these things are in any way difficult. theres a kind of sunny side where hes actually strengthening medicare. hes helping social security. hes helping medicaid. hell make it better by putting it to the states. if you want to cut more than $4 trillion over the next decade, if you want to cap medicare as growth and turn it over to priv...

He called an obligation to our grandparents once again find their way back into his budget. hes back doing it again. i want to go back to our analyst here. ezra. it seeps to me, the far bigger picture, i know youre an expert at the nuts and bolts. but the larger dishonesty, hes showing crocodile tears about parents and grandparents. at the very same time, hes saying lets throw medicare out the window, replace it with a voucher program so someone 80 years old can go around shopping for a health c...

Lets start there. these starting points dont seem like theyre realistic in terms of what we hear the president is trying to establish. and at least some republicans are looking like they might play ball with. >> with my dnc hat on, you know, arguably, im -- its not terrible that paul ryan and the republicans dont see that the voters rejected the path that they laid out. and, you know, thats going to give us more opportunities in 2014. but the responsible legislator in me who understands that we ...

On whether they lost the election was pretty tone deaf. >> its like going into a labor negotiation and saying, give me $1,000 an hour and well start from there. i mean, what hes asking for, or nothing, if youre the boss, ill give you nothing if youre the boss. i mean, this is supposed to be the kumbaya season between the two parties when youre going to try to find common ground. he says, lets start off with the fact i want to erase your whole first term, then i want to get rid of medicare as we ...

Campaign theme and worked its way into ryans convention speech. take a listen. >> they needed hundreds of billions of more, so they just took it all away from medicare. $716 billion funneled out of medicare by president obama. an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didnt even ask for. >> and yet a few months later those very cuts from a program he called an obligation to our grandparents find their way back into his budget. h...

Billion in medicare cuts he ran against and i think a lot of people dont recognize he also keeps the new taxes in the presidents health care plan. the part he gets rid of is the care in obama care. he gets rid of the spending in it. if he didnt do those two thing, get rid of the spending but keep cost controls, he couldnt get anywhere near balancing the budget and he also couldnt pass those two policies. new taxes and medicare cuts within the next ten years. over his own conference. so hes actua...

Lets start there. these starting points dont seem like theyre realistic in terms of what we hear the president is trying to establish. and at least some republicans are looking like they might play ball with. >> with my dnc hat on, you know, arguably, im -- its not terrible that paul ryan and the republicans dont see that the voters rejected the path that they laid out. and, you know, thats going to give us more opportunities in 2014. but the responsible legislator in me who understands that we ...

The very difficult choices, hes doing the hard things the president wont do. he talks about that all the time. unlike the president, he understands the scope of our challenges and hell do the very, very, very difficult things that need to be done now. on the other hand, he wont actually admit any of these things are in any way difficult. theres a kind of sunny side where hes actually strengthening medicare. hes helping social security. hes helping medicaid. hell make it better by putting it to t...